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Andrew Irvine

1902 - 1924

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Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine (8 April 1902 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was a British mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, the third British expedition to the world's highest mountain. He and his climbing partner George Mallory disappeared somewhere high on the mountain's Northeast Ridge, and were reportedly last seen alive at an indeterminate distance from the summit. Mallory's body was found in 1999, and Irvine's partial remains were discovered in 2024. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Irvine is the 5th most popular mountaineer (up from 24th in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,826th in 2019) and the most popular British Mountaineer.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Andrew Irvine ranks 5 out of 56. Before him are Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Reinhold Messner, and Heinrich Harrer. After him are Junko Tabei, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, George Mallory, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Jerzy Kukuczka, Jacques Balmat, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Andrew Irvine ranks 27. Before him are André Michel Lwoff, Josemaría Escrivá, Alva Myrdal, William Wyler, Margaret Hamilton, and Nâzım Hikmet. After him are Marcel Breuer, Meyer Lansky, Mikhail Suslov, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Ray Kroc, and Arne Jacobsen. Among people deceased in 1924, Andrew Irvine ranks 16. Before him are Alfred Marshall, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Bogd Khan, Carl Spitteler, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. After him are Robert Nivelle, Princess Louise of Belgium, Ferruccio Busoni, Ferdinand Cheval, George Mallory, and Léon Bakst.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Irvine ranks 507 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Houghton (1949), Anthony Burgess (1917), James Hilton (1900), Jackie Stewart (1939), Richard Wright (1943), and Arthur Eddington (1882). After him are Howard Staunton (1810), Beatrix Potter (1866), Robert Walpole (1676), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), John Wesley (1703), and William Pitt the Younger (1759).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In United Kingdom

Among mountaineers born in United Kingdom, Andrew Irvine ranks 1. After him are George Mallory (1886), Edward Whymper (1840), John Muir (1838), Albert F. Mummery (1855), Verney Lovett Cameron (1844), and Alison Hargreaves (1962).

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